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AT&T SportsNet to carry 3 Penguins’ qualifying round games
AT&T SportsNet is scheduled to potentially carry three of the Penguins’ five possible qualifying round games against the Montreal Canadiens next month. NBC is scheduled to carry Games 1 and 5 while AT&T will get the middle three games. The best-of-five series will be held in Toronto: Aug. 1 -...
Double Team: A cult hero with the Penguins, Johan Hedberg was reliable with the Thrashers
While the NHL is on hold because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Tribune-Review will offer the Double Team project, an examination of the five best players who have contributed substantially to the Penguins and another franchise. For consideration, a player must have played at least the equivalent of a...
Double Team: Sergei Gonchar was reliable on the Capitals’ and Penguins’ blue lines
While the NHL is on hold because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Tribune-Review will offer the Double Team project, an examination of the five best players who have contributed substantially to the Penguins and another franchise. For consideration, a player must have played at least the equivalent of a...
Versatility has increased value for the Penguins and Evan Rodrigues
It took Penguins management less than a week to see enough of Evan Rodrigues at right wing. Filling in for Patric Hornqvist on the third line, Rodrigues spent the first five days of the team’s training camp on the starboard side of center Jared McCann while alternating with rookie Sam...
‘It’s all about winning’ for Evgeni Malkin and Penguins
The Penguins’ franchise center has been hard to notice the past few days at training camp. To be frank, he’s been a non-factor. Completely inert. You could say he’s been missing. Sidney Crosby’s unexplained absence from the team’s practices and scrimmages since Saturday has left a considerable void. And the...
Patric Hornqvist, others resume practicing with Penguins
Nine Penguins players who were withheld from the first week of training camp as a precaution for potential secondary exposure to coronavirus were cleared to resume practicing Monday. The team did not identify the players, per the NHL’s new rules on withholding all medical information during the pandemic. But forwards...
Double Team: Marc-Andre Fleury gave hope to Penguins then Golden Knights
While the NHL is on hold because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Tribune-Review will offer the Double Team project, an examination of the five best players who have contributed substantially to the Penguins and another franchise. For consideration, a player must have played at least the equivalent of a...
Ex-Penguins Alexei Kovalev, Peter Skudra take over KHL teams
Former Penguins forward Alexei Kovalev and goaltender Petr Skudra have been named to the head coaching positions of teams in Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Kovalev, an all-star forward for the Penguins in the late 1990s and early 2000s, takes over the Kunlan Red Star, the league’s only team based...
Penguins players withheld as precaution against coronavirus cleared to practice
The Penguins announced nine players who were withheld from the first week of training camp as a precaution for potential secondary exposure to coronavirus have been cleared to resume practicing. The team did not identify the players, per the NHL’s new rules on withholding all medical information during the pandemic....
Teddy Blueger keeps putting in extra work to remain in Penguins’ lineupVideo
By the time the NHL season was halted March 12 because of the coronavirus pandemic, Pittsburgh Penguins forward Zach Aston-Reese had a head start on everyone else. He hasn’t played since suffering an undisclosed injury Feb. 16. So the Penguins’ first week of training camp in Cranberry in preparation of...
Double Team: Markus Naslund’s unfulfilled promise with Penguins was realized with Canucks
While the NHL is on hold because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Tribune-Review will offer the Double Team project, an examination of the five best players who have contributed substantially to the Penguins and another franchise. For consideration, a player must have played at least the equivalent of a...
Penguins forward Sidney Crosby remains absent from practice
Penguins forward Sidney Crosby did not participate in Sunday’s practice at the team’s facility in Cranberry. During the second period of a scrimmage Saturday, Crosby left the ice and retreated to the team’s dressing room. Coach Mike Sullivan declined to comment on Crosby’s status after the scrimmage, citing the NHL’s...
Conor Sheary recaptures his chemistry on the Penguins’ top line
The Penguins wore jerseys. Actual jerseys. No, not practice jerseys with a corporate sponsor’s chintzy logo on the right shoulder. Their real jerseys and uniforms. And there were referees. Granted, they were assistant coaches Mark Recchi and Ty Hennes donning the Zebra stripes, but officials were on the ice. Oh,...
Double Team: A scapegoat with the Maple Leafs, Phil Kessel became a Stanley Cup champion with the Penguins
While the NHL is on hold because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Tribune-Review will offer the Double Team project, an examination of the five best players who have contributed substantially to the Penguins and another franchise. For consideration, a player must have played at least the equivalent of a...
Penguins’ Sidney Crosby leaves scrimmage early for undisclosed reasons
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Sidney Crosby left during the second period of a scrimmage at the team’s facility in Cranberry on Saturday for undisclosed reasons. Citing NHL protocol, which does not permit teams to offer information on players’ health during the coronavirus pandemic, Mike Sullivan declined comment. Linemate Conor Sheary, apparently...
‘Burgh’s Best to Wear It, No. 44: Brooks Orpik was the first part of the Penguins’ renaissance
The Tribune-Review sports staff is conducting a daily countdown of the best players in Pittsburgh pro and college sports history to wear each jersey number. No. 44: Brooks Orpik When Brooks Orpik was called up to the NHL for the first time in 2002, the Penguins weren’t far removed from...
Double Team: Ruslan Fedotenko scored big goals for the Lightning and Penguins
While the NHL is on hold because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Tribune-Review will offer the Double Team project, an examination of the five best players who have contributed substantially to the Penguins and another franchise. For consideration, a player must have played at least the equivalent of a...
Patrick Marleau’s tireless pursuit of the Stanley Cup brought him to the Penguins
Games define Patrick Marleau’s marvelous NHL existence. Specifically, he’s played a lot of them through various contexts. He’s fifth in NHL history with 1,723 career regular-season games, barely half a season behind the all-time leader, Gordie Howe at 1,767. And with an active run of 854 straight regular-season games, he...
Double Team: Greg Millen brought stability in net to the Penguins and Blues
While the NHL is on hold because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Tribune-Review will offer the Double Team project, an examination of the five best players who have contributed substantially to the Penguins and another franchise. For consideration, a player must have played at least the equivalent of a...
Stars defenseman Stephen Johns of Wampum named finalist for Masterton Trophy
Dallas Stars defenseman Stephen Johns, a native of Wampum, has been named as a finalist for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy by the Professional Hockey Writers Association. The award recognizes the player who best “exemplifies the qualities of perserverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey.” Johns returned to action this season...
Kris Letang: A new NHL-NHLPA CBA is ‘what’s the best for the game’
Penguins defenseman Kris Letang has seen things get ugly between the NHL and NHLPA. He was among a group of Penguins players who worked out at the team’s former practice rink in Canonsburg for the better part of four months during fall 2012 while lawyers bickered over escrow and the...
Penguins’ power play remains a focus in run-up to NHL postseason tournament
Theory has it in the summer of 1606, William Shakespeare — the playwright, not the former Steelers draft pick — penned one of the most important pieces of literature in history, the tragedy “King Lear,” while in quarantine because of the bubonic plague. Suffice it to say, he maximized his...
Double Team: Bob Errey helped turn around the Penguins and Sharks
While the NHL is on hold because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Tribune-Review will offer the Double Team project, an examination of the five best players who have contributed substantially to the Penguins and another franchise. For consideration, a player must have played at least the equivalent of a...
The Penguins get reintroduced to contact in preparation for upcoming tournament
The Penguins have been avoiding contact. It’s not because they’re averse to a confrontation with longtime nemesis Tom Wilson of the Washington Capitals or mixing it up with New York Islanders checking machine Cal Clutterbuck. It’s more literal than that. They’ve been social distancing, like many, for the past four...
Penguins hope they have their third line finally figured out
Throughout the regular season, the Penguins’ third line was work in progress. Mostly because of injuries, the third line rarely was composed of the same trio of players for more than a handful of games at a time. And with Nick Bjugstad sidelined after back surgery this spring, they must...
